The 2011 volume has a short article by Christa Beranek and Rita DeForest on Planting Pots from Gore Place, WLtham MA
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On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:19 PM, George Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The article the Rob Hunter referred to is "A Cache of eighteenth Century
> Flowerpots from Williamsburg" by William Pittman and Robert Hunter that was
> published in* Ceramics in America* 2003, pages 208-212.
> Another article on flower pots is "The Making of a Flower Pot" by Bessie
> Buxton which was published in *The Magazine Antiques* and reprinted in *The
> Art of the Potter: Redware and Stoneware* Edited by Diana and J. Garrison
> Stradling, pages 148-149, Antiques Magazine Library, Main Street/Universe
> Books, no publishing date listed.
>
> Arthur E. James's book *The Potters and Potteries of Chester County,
> Pennsylvania* reprinted by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 1978 has a history of
> the Darlington Cope pottery that for several generations of potters made
> flowerpots and there is some price list information. See pages 54-63.
>
> Peace,
> George L. Miller
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Suzanne Spencer-Wood
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Context makes all the difference.
>> regards,
>> suzanne
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:47 PM, David W Babson <[log in to unmask]
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> In Syracuse, New York, I live in an apartment complex built in the mid
>>> 1960s, next to a public-memorial/park style cemetery that has been in use
>>> since the 1840s. The dominant artifacts in drip lines and other erosion
>>> features around the apartments are sherds of window glass and terra-cotta
>>> flower pots, along with a smaller amount of glazed, white earthenwares
>> and
>>> more vitreous wares. A local acquaintance, who grew up in Syracuse and
>>> remembered the city from the late 1930s, told me that the apartment site
>>> held a large, commercial greenhouse before construction of the
>> apartments.
>>> The greenhouse's market was people buying flowers to memorialize loved
>>> ones buried in the cemetery. I'll hazard a guess, and say that the white
>>> earthenware/vitreous wares sherds are from "florist" vases, intended for
>>> use as containers for the memorial flowers. (The more "refined" sherds I
>>> have seen are small, and usually degraded; I haven't examined them
>> closely
>>> enough to begin to determine vessel
>>> forms.) Extrapolating, I connect this to funeral customs, and the
>>> 19th-century park-cemetery movement, and do not see these artifacts as,
>>> directly, gendered. This may be a case of incomplete context, as I do
>> not
>>> have information as to the gender, age, or ethnicity of the owner of or
>>> workers in the greenhouse. But, I would say that this context (during
>> the
>>> first half of the 20th century) was primarily commercial.
>>>
>>> D. Babson.
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Suzanne
>>> Spencer-Wood [[log in to unmask]]
>>> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 7:57 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Flower pots
>>>
>>> Hello Jay,
>>> I have inferred the meaning of flowerpots in the dominant gender
>>> ideology from the most popular domestic manual of the second half of the
>>> 19th century - The American Woman's Home by Catharine Beecher and her
>>> famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe. They designed and advocated a home
>>> conservatory in a parlor bay window, with plants of various sizes in
>>> flowerpots,as well as a terrarium, to bring a family's children into
>>> contact with the morally reforming influence of God's natural world,
>> which
>>> was associated with women. Beecher and Stowe were among the reform women
>> I
>>> call domestic reformers because they valorized women's supposed innate
>>> superior morality due to the closeness of women and their domestic sphere
>>> to nature, removed from men's public capitalist sphere that permitted the
>>> biblical sins of usury, price gouging, and labor exploitation, which were
>>> all illegal in the theocracy of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Some
>> domestic
>>> reformers created children's gardens and playgrounds, as well as prison
>>> gardens (currently reviving), to morally reform juveniles and prisoners
>> by
>>> bringing them into contact with God's natural world, which was associated
>>> with women in the dominant gender ideology.
>>>
>>> The inference about the meaning of flowerpots is made in the following
>>> publication:
>>>
>>> Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. 1999 The World Their Household: Changing
>>> Meanings of the Domestic Sphere in the Nineteenth Century. In *The
>>> Archaeology of Household Activities,* edited by Penelope M. Allison. Pp.
>>> 162-89. Routledge, London. flowerpot meaning on p. 183
>>>
>>> The moral meaning of nature motivating reform women to create green
>> spaces
>>> such as children's gardens and playgrounds in men's "sinful cities of
>>> stone" is in:
>>>
>>> Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. 2003. Gendering the Creation of Green Urban
>>> landscapes in America at the Turn of the Century. In *Shared Spaces and
>>> Divided Places. Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American
>>> Historical Landscape*, edited by D.L. Rotman and E. Savulis. Pp. 24-61.
>>> Knoxville, U. of Tennessee Press.
>>>
>>> I would be very interested to know if you find more about the meaning of
>>> gardens at asylums. I was the outside reviewer on Susan Piddock's PhD
>>> dissertation.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> suzanne
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stottman, Michael J <[log in to unmask]
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am looking for any information on studies of flower pots. In
>>>> particular, I am trying locate good resources on the history of terra
>>> cotta
>>>> flower pots and relationship of size to use. Also I am looking for
>> info
>>> on
>>>> greenhouse heating systems. The session at the SHA conference in
>>> Baltimore
>>>> last year was very good and I have some great resources from the
>> histarch
>>>> discussion of greenhouses and orangeries a couple of years ago, but I
>> am
>>>> looking more specifically at the mid to late nineteenth century and
>>> within
>>>> an institutional context. I am working on a greenhouse at the Eastern
>>>> State Lunatic Asylum in Lexington, Kentucky where I have brick
>>> foundations,
>>>> trench features associated with a heating system (seems to be for
>> hearth
>>>> and ash clean-out), and thousands of terra cotta flower pot sherds of
>>>> various sizes. I am looking to relate these resources to nineteenth
>>>> century philosophies of architectural and landscape designs for
>> asylums,
>>>> such as the Kirkbride model and to treatment philosophies (I have Susan
>>>> Piddock's edited volume and diss.). Any suggestions for historical
>>>> references or archaeological studies of flower pots and greenhouses
>> would
>>>> be much appreciated, I am trying make sure I am not missing anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> M. Jay Stottman
>>>> Staff Archaeologist
>>>> Kentucky Archaeological Survey
>>
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